linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req

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Message-ID: <20071028134414.GF26943@isilmar.linta.de>
Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:44:14 +0100
From:	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use unsigned int

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:17:20PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Convert the io_req_t members to unsigned int, to allow use on machines
> with more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on
> ppc64, etc).

Agreed, though I'd prefer if we got rid of kio_addr_t at the same time, and
convert its users to unsigned int as well -- as was pointed out earlier in
this thread, there's no known usage of IO ports larger than 32 bits.

	Dominik
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